...John David Miles © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race and Reform . By Lucy Maddox. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2005. 205 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $19.95. E Pluribus Unum: Nineteenth-Century American Literature...

..., because here there abides no social group in which conditions operate toward the overshadowing of such elements as are not deemed assimilable. And now, I, Astral Herndon, hereby and forever renounce all citizenship in all lands whatsoever, and constitute myself A CITIZEN OF THE OCEAN, and ordain...

...Stephen Knadler Duke University Press 2007 Stephen Sensationalizing Patriotism: Knadler Sutton Griggs and the Sentimental Nationalism of Citizen Tom ​In Life’s Demands; or, According to Law (1916), Afri- can American novelist, minister...

.... By Mary Pat Brady. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2002. xiii, 274 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $18.95. Gang Nation: Delinquent Citizens in Puerto Rican, Chicano, and Chicana Narratives. By Monica Brown. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2002. xxxv, 212 pp. Cloth, $52.95; paper, $18.95...

...Victor Román Mendoza © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Economic Citizens: A Narrative of Asian American Visibility. By Christine So. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press. 2007. x, 178 pp. Cloth, $49.00; paper, $26.95. Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing...

...Sarah Wadsworth Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers and the Limits of American Independence, 1640-1868 . By Weikle-Mills Courtney . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . 2013 . x , 265 pp. $55.00 . Disciplining Girls: Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story...

...Russ Castronovo By Elizabeth D. Samet. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2004. xii,273 pp. $55.00. By David Kazanjian. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2003. xii, 311 pp. Cloth, $71.95; paper, $25.95. 2005 Book Reviews Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers...

... of the ERA movement. Using the appeal of tradition, today’s astute activists— writers of speeches and fiction—can redefine that tradition. Carol F. Kessler, Pennsylvania State University, Media Citizens of Somewhere...

... and transferring learning from the course to action as a citizen. This pedagogy ultimately fosters a liberal education that explicitly links private study with public concerns and that encourages students to see themselves as potential agents of change in a neoliberal state that identifies them merely as consumers...

...Nick Bromell Bromell's essay argues that Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Nella Larsen's Passing both represent and enact a core problem in theories of deliberative democracy: how to assess the value of differences among citizens (of race, gender, or age) when democracy is understood...

... allows not only an interrogation of the limits of US citizenship but also an exploration of how narratives may register something in excess of the citizen and the subject. Distinguishing between the antebellum (boy) characters’ violent play with cats and the postbellum narrator’s ludic play as cat, I...

... as the distinguishing feature of the postwar era. Luce's emphasis on postwar professionals as celebrated citizens of a U.S. trained professional class created the conditions of possibility for Bulosan to paradoxically construct Filipinos and Filipino Americans as experts on processes of Americanization. Departing from...

... person rather than the human or the citizen, United States v. Amy alerts us to the lethal legacy of slave personhood as a debilitating mixture of civil death and criminal culpability. Nowhere, perhaps, is that legacy more evident than in viral videos of police misconduct. And nowhere do we see a more...

... this chronocanon put forth antiracist and anti-imperialist arguments in an era when racist violence and imperialist tendencies were widely deployed, both by the US government and by many of its citizens. More broadly, I argue that for critics interested in the politics of literature, more attention to mass...

... and its object, the agent blurred with the process of her continual self-invention as a hybrid of multiple cultures. Meditating on relations between subject and object, viewer and vision, consumer and commodity, Yezierska makes plain the role of citizen as consumer. Her work crystallizes the dominance...

... experts, saving “future citizens” by rescuing them “out of a life of crime” and into white, middle-class domesticity, at the same time articulating the child’s biological mother as criminal and nonwhite. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 adoption realism race and ethnicity...

.... DuBois, this essay argues that the fractious debates of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries regarding the social utility of literature in the lives of black citizens established the critical, artistic, and reformist fault lines of the Harlem Renaissance. © 2015 by Duke University Press...

..., citizens vis-à-vis the state, by giving us information we might need to imagine and remake the power dynamics of this relationship? [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 opacity transparency Asian American literature citizenship On June 26, 2018, the US...

... Man’s ancient symbol” will be on the colonizer’s terms (line 10). The poem’s framing with the language of whiteness signals Hen-toh’s doubt that becoming a formal US citizen by serving in the military would ensure equal footing in the United States while also honoring the sovereignty and culture...

... that they are not a citizen—or do they devise a more complex definition of citizenship” (18)? The studies here offer a range of responses—homemade citizenship, representative imaginaries, reciprocal engagement—but for people without immigrant rights, the path to citizenship might be long and arduous or even impossible...